Patrick Bartek via Dng said on Tue, 15 Jun 2021 11:28:14 -0700 >What desktop was the Jessie computer running before your dist-upgrade >to Beowulf? And after? Many times desktops have their own way of >handling automounting usb devices.
Desktops having their own way of handling usb device automounting is, in my opinion, a travesty. Kinda like systemd has its own way of handling home directories and networking. Do one thing and do it well. That's Hopman. Another thing, as far as I know (and I hope I'm right), Hopman will also work when there's no GUI, because there's nothing about CLI that de-necessitates automounting for the person who needs that convenience. Whether you have fvwm, KDE, Gnome, Xfce, LXDE, Ratpoison, or no GUI, Hopman just works. That's sure how I want *my* Linux machine to work. WM/DEs (Window Manager/Desktop Environments) change, and users' needs change. Asking them to use a different automounter just because they decide to get closer or farther from the metal is, IMHO, a bridge too far. Hopman is the right way to go, for Devuan and every other distro. Once Hopman is done, I think Aitor and Didier should make a CLI capable, sans-dbus, distro/WM-DE agnostic Wifi machine --- a replacement for junk like NetworkManager and Wicd. I'll help --- I've already made some attempts using WPA-SUPPLICANT and its cousins. I see two challenges in making such a Wifi machine: 1) It must be operable by a normal user 2) It's by nature a state machine, and those are difficult to implement A distro/WMDE agnostic Wifi machine would definitely scratch one of my itches. I'm sick of doing the wpa_passwd thing after manually detecting the radio beams of the local access points. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng